Electric cooking utensil.



L. E. PARKHURST & H. G. WEEKS. ELECTRIC COOKING UTENSIL. APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1910.

1,023,754. Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

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PATENT OFFICE.

LEON F. PABKHURST AND HARRY G. WEEKS, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO DIAMOND ELECTRIC COMPANY, OF BINGHAMTON,

NEW YORK, a CORPORATION ELECTRIC COOKING UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application filed September 24, 1910. Serial No. 585,551.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that we, LEON F. PARKHURST and I'lARRY G. VVEnKs, citizens-of the United States, residing at Binghamton, county of llrccme. State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

()ur invention relates to electrically heated cooking utensils, and is concerned with a device of this character which is particularly adapted for toasting bread and the like, altlumgh it is to be understood that its use is not confined to this purpose, as the device may be employed with advantage for any open grate purpose, and may be used as a source of heat for broiling purpcses.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of the above character which shall be of light construction and absorb a minimum amount of heat, which shall be sanitary and in which the support for the arti-..

do to be cooked may be readily removed to facilitate cleaning and also to afford ready access to the electric heating units and their connections.

A further object is to make the device as compact and simple as possible consistent with effective operation.

WVith these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, a preferred embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a device embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 isa plan view, parts being broken away for clear illustration.

The embodiment of the invention herein selected for illustration comprises a base 1, which may be of slate or porcelain, having the feet 2 molded thereon or fixed thereto. T he. upper side of the base is provided with araised rim 3 forming a shallow receptacle to retain falling crumbs and the like, and to prevent the same from scattering upon the table. Rising from the base are supporting legs at, one at each corner, said legs having offsets 5 to support the electric heating units hereinafter to be described. To the upper ends 6 of these legs above the supports 5. is

the members 7 and 8 riveted together at their opposite ends at 9. Within the frame so formed is located a supporting slab 10 which caries the heat units 11 11" 11 and 11 This slab is preferably made of asbestos board or like insulating material and rests upon the offsets 5 of the supporting legs, to which it is secured by screws 12.

This slab furthermore, is of skeleton form having the long openings 13 through which crumbs andthe like may fall to the shallow Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

receptacle at the upper surface of the base.

The heat units p oper consist preferably of mica strips 14 upon which the resistance element 15 is successively wound. In the form here shown, the heat units are connected in continuous series by the connections 16. One terminal 17 of the resistance element is connected to the binding post 18 and the opposite terminal 19 to .the binding post 20. The binding posts 18 and 20 are provided with connections 21 and 22 respectively, Fig. 1, on the under side of the supporting slab 10 leading to the leading-in cable 23, which is suitably secured to the base 1 at 24, Figs. 1 and 2.

By the above described arrangement of the electrical connections, it will be seen that the supporting slab 10 serves as a convenient insulating terminal block support for the leading-in cables as well as a support for the heat units.

The toast screen or grid consists preferably of a wire frame 25 provided with in terlaced' cross wires 26, Fig. 3, forming a support for the bread or other article to be heated. The screen or grid is held removably in place by means of the bent cross Wires 27, which may be readily slipped into the frame carrying the heating units. Thls screen or grid also is made as light as possible to revent the absorption of heat.

It is ound in practice that the efiiciency of the apparatus may be increased by mounting a metallic reflecting plate beneath the heating units. In some instances, therefore, we prefer to mount such reflecting plate removabl beneath said units. A removable plate 0 this description is illustrated at 28, Figs. 1 and 2, and consists as shown of a shallow pan supported upon brackets 29 secured beneath the offsets 5 of the supporting legs 4. This pan may have a depending :ent to facilitate insertion and removal.

without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

What we claim is:

1. An electrically heated cooking device comprising an insulating base having a crumb receptacle at its upper face, a skeleton frame supported from said base, a skeleton insulating support carrying one or more heating units supported in said frame, and a grid removablylnounted in said frame over said heating units.

2. An electrically heated cooking device comprising a base molded of insulating material and having a crumb receptacle formed in its upper face, a frame supported from said base, a slab of insulating material sup ported in said frame and carrying a plurality of electric heating units, said slab having openings to permit the free passage or crumbs and the like to said crumb receptacle, and a screen or grid supported on said frame and having means to retain the sameremovabl V in position thereon.

3. An electrically heated cooking device comprising a frame, a. lurality of sup rting standards for said ame, said standiiirds having offsets extending within the frame,

an insulating slab supported upon said ofisets within the frame and carrying a plurality of heating elements, terminal osts in said slabs to receive the termina of said elements and adapted also to receive the terminals of the leading-in cable, and a grid carried by said frame.

4. An electrically heated cooking device comprising a frame, su ports therefor, an insulating slab supporte in said frame and carrying one or more electric heating units, said slab serving also as a terminal block for the resistance element of said unit, a. grid removably supported on said frame,

and a removable reflecting plate mounted beneath said heating units.

5. An electrically heated cooking device com rising a frame, supports therefor, an insu ating slab supported in said frame and carryin one or more electric heatin units, said sla servin also as a terminal b ock for the resistance e ement of said unit, a grid removably su ported on said frame, and a removable re ecting plate mounted beneath said heating units an comprising a shallow pan having means to facilitate the insertion 1n and removal from the device.

LEON F. PARKHURST. HARRY G. WEEKS. Witnesses:

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